The prospects of Institutionalising the Values ‘Openness’ and ‘Responsiveness’ in the Scientific Community (René von Schomberg)
2022-11-30 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Helsinki) | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research
On Wednesday, November 30th, Guest Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, René von Schomberg, will talk about The prospects of Institutionalising the Values ‘Openness’ and ‘Responsiveness’ in the Scientific Community. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research.
To participlate, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de

Engaging publics in open anticipatory governance of technology (Andoni Ibarra) - CANCELLED!
2022-11-16 17:00 - 18:30 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research
The lecture on Wednesday, November 16th, by Andoni Ibarra, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), has been cancelled. The talk was scheduled as part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research.
To participlate, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de

c:o/re @ RWTH Wissenschaftsnacht
2022-11-11 19:00 - 23:30 | RWTH Aachen, C.A.R.L., Claßenstraße 11, Aachen, 52072, Germany
On November 11th, 2022, you can find us at the RWTH Wissenschaftsnacht in Aachen. Together with many other cool projects (check out the program here) you can find us at the C.A.R.L. (Claßenstraße 11), where we will unbox science together with you! Come by if you are interested in discussing how science gets made in the digital age.

Engineering Practices Workshop: New Horizons in the Social Study of Science and Software
2022-11-08 11:00 - 16:00 | Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Program
11:00 Dawid Kasprowicz: Managing the unmanageable: Is Software Engineering the art or science of scientific programming?
Discussant: Ben Peters
12:00 Phillip H. Roth: Scientific communication in the Age of Software: Sorting out Materiality, Community and Infrastructure
Discussant: Arianna Borrelli
13:00 lunch break
14:30 Roundtable on the Social Study of Science and Software – Issues, Approaches, Ideas
Ana María Guzmán Olmos, Alexandre Hocquet, Catharina Landström, Clarissa Lee, Alin Olteanu, Frédéric Wieber
You can find the program as pdf here.
Registration is closed.

Trials of implicitness: technology testing beyond the laboratory or the coming crisis of experimental accountability (Noortje Marres)
2022-11-02 17:00 - 18:30 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research
On Wednesday, November 2nd, STS researcher and Professor at Warwick University, UK, Noortje Marres, will talk about Trials of implicitness: technology testing beyond the laboratory or the coming crisis of experimental accountability. The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series: Cultures of Research. It will be held online.
To participlate, please register with events@khk.rwth-aachen.de

Workshop: Prinzipien der neuronalen Informationsverarbeitung. Geometrie – Dynamik – Wissen
2022-10-27 14:00 - 2022-10-28 16:00 | Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Prof. em. Dr. Werner von Seelen in Kooperation mit c:o/re Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Cultures of Research“ und dem INM-6 Institut für neurowissenschaft und -medizin, Forschungszentrum Jülich veranstalten den Workshop ‘Prinzipien der neuronalen Informationsverarbeitung. Geometrie – Dynamik – Wissen‘.
PROGRAMM
Donnerstag 27.10.2022
14:00-14:15 Begrüßung, Vorstellungsrunde durch Markus Diesmann (Direktor des Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Computational and Systems Neuroscience & Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Theoretical Neuroscience & JARA-Institut Brain structure-function relationships (INM-10), Forschungszentrum Jülich) und Gabriele Gramelsberger (Direktorin des Käte Hamburg Kollegs „Kulturen des Forschens“, RWTH Aachen).
14:15-14:30 Einführung in den Workshop durch Konstantin Behrend
14:30-15:30 Keynote Werner von Seelen (Prof. em. für Neuroinformatik und Theoretische Biologie): „Prinzipien neuronaler Informationsverarbeitung – Strukturen“ mit anschließender Diskussion
15:30-16:00 Pause
16:00-17:00 Guenther Palm (Prof. em. Universität Ulm): Neural Information Processing, Universität Ulm
17:00-18:00 Wulfram Gerstner (Direktor des Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience LCN, EPFL Lausanne): Synaptische Regeln des Lernens: Gibt es so was wirklich?
18:00-19:00 Helge Ritter (Direktor des Institute of Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab), Universität Bielefeld): Ist gute Nachbarschaft auch wichtig für das Gehirn?
19:30 Abendessen
Freitag 28.10.2022
10:00-11:00 Gabriele Gramelsberger: Die Aktualität von Kant in der Neurowissenschaft
11:00-12:00 Moritz Helias (Gruppenleiter Theory of Multi-Scale Neuronal Networks am Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Forschungszentrum Jülich): Gell-Mann–Low Criticality in Neural Networks
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Abschlussdiskussion
Anmeldung zu dieser Veranstaltung ist nicht mehr möglich/ The registration to this event is closed.

Hackathon: Communicating Science
2022-09-21 10:00 - 2022-09-22 15:00 | Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Science communication has been in the spotlight for quite some time, not only against the
background of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its importance for creating an informed public that trusts
science and scientific expertise has become apparent for science and politics alike. But where
should institutions and researchers begin? How can they decide which target audience to address?
And which science communication formats or social media channels should they choose in order
to reach their respective target group?
This event, that c:o/re is organizing together with Wissenschaft im Dialog is designed to learn about science communication formats, different target audiences and respective communication strategies, with ample space for discussion and practical application. Experts in science communication will provide an introduction to different concepts, objectives and developments. In different working groups, the invited participants will focus on the creation of suitable science communication projects/formats.
Link to program
Registration is closed

IDEA League Summer School: Trajectories of Technology
2022-09-05 09:00 - 2022-09-09 18:00 | RWTH Aachen University, Templergraben 55, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Is development of technology driven by innovation and break through engineering or is technology development incremental resulting from long-term agenda setting, road mapping processes, social interaction? By taking a break and looking back into the history of crucial technologies, path dependencies and decade-old trajectories can be observed. Beside the history and narrative of each singular technology development, major trajectories of technology development can be observed. Thus, looking back in time offers enlightening insights into future possibilities.
The interdisciplinary Summer School Trajectories of Technology seeks to understand the path dependencies of technology development and how much these trajectories constrain today’s technology development. It applies methods from Science and Technology Studies, Innovation Studies, as well as Technology Assessment to offer problem-oriented insights into the history of technology and engineering. In working groups, we will analyze the mutual interdependence of specific technological developments.
The school is jointly organized by lecturers from RWTH Aachen University, ETH Zurich, Politecnico di Milano and guest speakers and will be held in 2022, September 5th to 9th at Aachen. Please find the program here.
The Summer School takes place at the Stadtpalais Theaterstraße 75, 52062 Aachen, and RWTH Guest house Königshügel, Melatenerstraße 31, 52074 Aachen. The registration is closed.

Fourth European Pragmatism Conference
2022-08-03 - 2022-08-05 | University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
The Fourth European Pragmatism Conference is taking place at University College London on August 3-5, 2022. Together with Andrea Paravicini and Christian Frigerio (State University of Milan), Alin Olteanu and c:o/re fellow Erica Onnis are organizing a panel that means to challenge the theoretical dichotomisation of individual and collective by adopting several perspectives on complexity as salient in contemporary pragmatism. The panel is titled “Individual and collective: Pragmatist perspectives at the crossroads of metaphysics, biology and semiotics” (see conference program).

Demystifying Probabilistic Programming (Joost-Pieter Katoen)
2022-07-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Joost-Pieter Katoen is Professor of software modeling and verifaction at the RWTH University Aachen. His talk will provide insights into his work focussing on probabilistic programs and their applications.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
2022-07-06 - 2022-07-09
The annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) takes place on July 6-9, 2022, in Madrid: “The Politics of Technoscientific Futures” is the topic of this years conference. Phillip Roth, Alin Olteanu and Ana María Guzmán are chairing a panel on “Making Media Futures. From Meaning to Imaginations and Expectations.“

Inauguration of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research
2022-07-04 17:00 - 21:00 | Historical Town Hall Aachen, Markt, Aachen, 52062, Germany
The opening ceremony of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) will take place on Monday, 4th July 2022 at 5 pm at the Aachen Town Hall. In the festive venue of the historical Coronation Hall, we will be celebrating the launch of the International Center for Advanced Studies in Philosophy, Sociology, and History of Science and Technology at RWTH Aachen University one year ago. The program is dedicated to one of the key topics of the Center: the transformations of research cultures in the digital age.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Chicago) on the topic of “From loving the data to loving automation: epistemic shifts in the digital age” (abstract). The lecture will be followed by a discussion on the present and future transformations of research cultures. We are honored to welcome as panelists Prof. Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Chicago, Department of Sociology and Anthropology), Prof. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Emeritus Scientific Member of the MPI for the History of Science), Prof. Lars Blank (RWTH Aachen, Chair of Applied Microbiology) and Prof. Matthias Wessling (RWTH Aachen, Vice-Rector for Research and Structure), and as moderator the science journalist Dr. Jan-Martin Wiarda.
Attendance by invitation only.

Open Scholarship, Responsible Innovation and Anticipatory Governance (René von Schomberg and Andoni Ibarra)
2022-06-29 09:30 - 2022-06-30 16:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
The workshop organised by René von Schomberg and Andoni Ibarra tackles some ‘lead questions’ in open science, responsible innovation and anticipatory governance. Some of those are: Can open scholarship make science more reliable, responsive, credible and inclusive? And does open scholarship lead to a better scientific practice? How should open scholarship be incentivised? What is the significance of anticipatory governance for open science and responsible research and innovation? How do we conceptualize “anticipation” in such a way that it leads to open anticipatory governance? How can we assess anticipatory governance? These and other questions will be discussed at an open round table.
Please find the program here.

Art’s Realism in the Post-Truth Era (Amanda Boetzkes)
2022-06-21 10:00 - 2022-06-23 17:00 | Haus Matthéy/ Stadtpalais
The last decade has seen a growing preoccupation with philosophies of realism from artists, curators, theorists and historians. But while the arts benefit from this domain of philosophical inquiry, the reverse is also true: the significance of realism in an era characterized by global warming, migrations, and fake news can only be fully understood by attending to the ways that art mediates, visualizes, and even shapes reality. Taking art’s constitutive relationship to realism seriously, this workshop organised by Amanda Boetzkes intervenes on contemporary debates about realism by demonstrating that the arts do not simply illustrate philosophical theories, they require its redefinition. The contributors will demonstrate such reconceptualizations of realism and through its aesthetic dimensions not only in the visual arts, but also in sound art, performance and scientific imaging. Bringing together advanced scholars from art history, media studies,philosophy, literature and visual arts, the workshop foregrounds the importance of art’s realism in a global ecology that crosses the boundaries of discipline and medium.
Please find the program here.

4th conference of the International Association of Cognitive Semiotics (IACS)
2022-06-15 - 2022-06-18 | RWTH Aachen University, Templergraben 55, Aachen, 52062, Germany
The 4th conference of the International Association of Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), which will take place on June 15-18, 2022, is hosted by RWTH Aachen University. Particularly, the Chair of Semiotics and Cognitive Linguistics (Professor Irene Mittelberg, Professor Martin Thiering) is hosting this conference with the assistance of c:o/re (Professor Gabriele Grameslberger, Dr. Alin Olteanu) and, also, colleagues from KU Leuven. The topic of the conference is Semiotic Complexities – Theory & Analysis. The c:o/re team is organizing a panel on “Semiotic Approaches to Research Cultures” (see conference program).

Lecture: An-Archaeology and Spectral Realism (Hilan Bensusan)
2022-06-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
An-archaeology is a procedure to reshape the official foundational accounts of thought through adding virtual and counterfactual narratives. It springs from a certain mistrust in the capacity of any starting point to ground what comes next – and from the idea that no beginning is oblivious to its others. As such it is an attempt to think through the unruled; it comes close to what Emmanuel Levinas meant when he wrote “true as only fiction can be”.
Spectral realism is the belief in what haunts – even though, as Juliana Martinez professes, it is worth paying more attention to the haunting than to the ghost. It is an attempt to look towards the past through its effects in lores, traumas, inheritances and recurrent images. Saidya Hartman is engaging with specters when she tries to narrate what the past has systematically obliterated. Spectral realism is a stance towards the memory according to which the past is its salient mode of existence.
Both endeavors relate to the Aristotelian quest for the drawing line between remembering and imagining. Both draw on how memory cannot be thought through without the mutual imbrication of retention and retrieval – to refer to the main characters of the philosophy of memory that John Locke once rehearsed. This talk will explore what both an-archaeology and spectral realism have to say together about the past and what we could do with it.
Please find the abstract and more information about the speaker here.

How will humans treat AI? Or, Human social intelligence meets artificial intelligence (Ophelia Deroy)
2022-06-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Ophelia Deroy is Professor of philosophy of mind at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Her talk will discuss aspects of experience and thought which challenge individuals’ capacity for rational justification or even reflective awareness as part of her research on the interface of philosophy of mind and cognitive neurosciences.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

The Use of Networks in Humanities and Social Sciences. Model, Metaphor, Method (Ana Bazzan with Phillip H. Roth and Alin Olteanu)
2022-05-30 13:30 - 2022-06-01 12:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
The workshop organised by Ana Bazzan with Phillip H. Roth and Alin Olteanu charts the use of networks in humanities and social sciences and the consequences of their use for the way we perceive and understand science, society and the world.
Please find the program here.

Reverse-engineering the Language of Thought (Jakub Szymanik)
2022-05-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Jakub Szymanik is Associate professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His talk will give insight into his work surrounding meaning, computation, and cognition, more precisely natural language semantics, including generalized quantifiers, and reasoning.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Calibrating expectations about AI: A renewed endeavour towards the measurement of behaviour (Jose Hernandez Orallo)
2022-05-18 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Jose Hernandez Orallo is Professor at the Valencian Graduate School and Research Network of Artificial Intelligence, which is a non-profit foundation made up of the Generalitat Valenciana, companies and the five public universities of the Valencian Community. His talk will be discussing his work around the evaluation and measurement of intelligent systems in general and machine learning in particular, as well as more applied research on data science, data mining and inductive programming.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

The Human Measure and the Measure of all Minds (Steve Fuller)
2022-05-18 12:00 - 2022-05-19 12:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
The workshop addresses the big questions that post- and transhumanism are tackling with: What does it mean to be ‘human’? To what extent does being human depend on the existence of the ‘non-human’? Can a being transition in and out of being ‘human’? Can qualities such as mentality and personhood, which have been seen as distinctly human, be realized – perhaps even more fully – in non-human beings? The workshop title is inspired by Jose Hernandez Orallo who will also give a presentation.
An opening statement on the topic of the workshop by Steve Fuller can be found in our blog.
Please find the programm here.

Explainable and Verifiable Machine Learning. A Grand Challenge for Computer Science (Kim Guldstrand Larsen)
2022-05-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Kim Guldstrand Larsen is professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University within the Distributed, Embedded Systems and Intelligent (DEIS) Unit and director of the ICT-competence center CISS, Center for Embedded Software Systems. Being the prime investigator of the award winning tool UPPAAL as well as its branches, his talk will highlight ongoing research towards explainable and verifiable learning-based CPS pursued within the context of the modelling and verification tool UPPAAL
Stratego.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Space, Literacy and Citizenship in the Digitalization of Law (Jean Lassègue)
2022-05-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Jean Lassègue is Senior Researcher at CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) and member of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). His talk will give insight into his work around the history and epistemology of computer science, theory of forms and symbolic activities, from exact sciences to sciences of culture and an anthropology of writing and of law.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Traffic as a Socio-Technical System: Opportunities for AI (Ana Bazzan)
2022-04-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Ana Bazzan is c:o/re fellow and Professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Informatics and Leader of the Artificial Intelligence Group, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. Her talk will go into detail on her research surrounding multiagent systems or more recently, smart cities focussing on transportation.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Enlightenment Now! (Steve Fuller and Frederik Stjernfelt)
2022-04-21 10:00 - 18:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
In this seminar, we would like to draw a line between recent intense research into the intellectual history of the Enlightenment and our present situation. What would Radical Enlightenment mean today? How would a 17-18th century Enlightenment view on our present predicament look like? – given pressing issues of academia today, the fate of the universities, the development of AI, tech, the new West-East cold war, populism, globalization, post/trans humanism, the future of humanity?
Beside talks by c:o/re Fellows Frederik Stjernfelt and Steve Fuller, the seminar will include contributions by historian Jonathan Israel (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton), Rens Bod, professor of Digital Humanities and History of the Humanities (Amsterdam) and scholar of cultural studies Cheryce von Xylander (Lüneburg).
Please find the program here.

Behavioral Objects, Agonistic Objects. How and why to design art robotic objects fighting against and for their being conditions? (Samuel Bianchini)
2022-04-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Samuel Bianchini is an artist and associate professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs—Paris (EnsAD) / PSL University Paris. His talk will provide insight into his work on the relationships between the most forward-looking technological “dispositifs”, modes of representation, new forms of aesthetic experiences, and sociopolitical organizations.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Interdisciplinary Research in Robotics and AI (Joffrey Becker)
2022-04-20 12:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
This event is planned by Joffrey Becker as a short workshop that brings together different experts on the topic of Robotics and AI.
Please find the program here.

What is the value-added of being human? The beginning of a conversation (Steve Fuller)
2022-04-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Steve Fuller is c:o/re fellow and Professor of Social Epistemology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, England. In his talk, he will give insight into his work around the future of humanity or a “humanity 2.0”.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Scientific Explanations from Machine Learning? (Stefan Buijsman)
2022-04-06 17:00 - 18:00 | Stadtpalais/Online, Theaterstraße 75, Aachen, 52062, Germany
Stefan Buijsman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft, Netherlands. In his talk, he will be discussing the issue of obtaining scientific explanations from machine learning models.
The talk is part of the c:o/re Lecture Series Cultures of Research – Philosophy of AI_Optimist and Pessimist Views.

Computational Reproducibility and Open Science (Alexandre Hocquet)
2022-03-23 10:00 - 2022-03-24 15:00 | FZ Jülich/ Stadtpalais/ Online
The workshop organised by Alexandre Hocquet is part of the “Engineering Practices” Series in cooperation with RWTH Aachen University.
Please find the program here.
